Claims online prostitution is soaring here

The Immigrant Council of Ireland says online prostitution levels are 240 per cent higher in Ireland than those across the border – after Stormont introduced tough new laws to combat sex crimes in June.

It says the number of women for sale in Cork is higher than all of Northern Ireland.

Denise Charlton from the Immigrant Council says traffickers and pimps are exploiting the different laws in the two jurisdictions: